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Richard Coles

Aasmah Mir

Stuart Maconie

Saba Douglas-Hamilton

Radzi Chinyanganya

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Saturday Live: Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya, Frederick Forsyth

Roddy Frame

09/04/2016

Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya, Frederick Forsyth

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya, Frederick Forsyth

Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya and Frederick Forsyth.

Writer and DJ Stuart Maconie, elephant conservationist Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya and bestselling author Frederick Forsyth's Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by DJ and writer Stuart Maconie.

Stuart's new paperback 'The Pie at Night', is an exploration of "what the North does for fun" and a defence of northerners who make the effort to get dressed up for a glam night out. Stuart reveals the little-known corners of northern towns and countryside where old or quirky customs still live on.

Saba Douglas-Hamilton met her first wild elephant at the age of six weeks. She's now a conservationist and raising her own children amidst wild elephants in Kenya. She's also a wildlife documentary maker and presenter of 'This Wild Life' and 'Big Cat Diaries'. She talks about waking up with a bull elephant looming over her and coping with a spitting cobra in the bathroom.

Radzi Chinyanganya is the classic adrenalin-fulled 'Blue Peter' presenter and has competed in karate and skeleton bob. But perhaps his most dangerous stunt was running on custard. (Listen to find out why.) In a change from the usual content, Radzi has made a special programme called 'The Walk That Changed The World', in which he retraces the route of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights march led by his hero Martin Luther King Jr.

Bestselling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth shares his Inheritance Tracks. He inherits 'Ol' Man River' sung by Paul Robeson and passes on 'Fallen Soldier' sung by Melissa.

Following on from last week's thank you to Deirdre, a cabin crew member who saved a child in a hijacking, and then disregarded her own safety to reboard the plane - we hear from Deirdre herself.

Listeners tell us how they spend their Saturdays working as Special Constables. And we're live from the jockeys' weighing room at Aintree ahead of the Grand National.

Producer: Paul Waters.

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